The Rangers coach continued his successful run of coach’s challenges when he questioned Marian Hossa’s goal 6:00 into the third period because of offsides and the officials overturned it, keeping the game scoreless.

Since the challenge was instituted last season, Vigneault is 5-for-11 on calls relating to goals, and 1-for-1 this year.

“Initially, I thought it looked really offside,” Vigneault said. “Then when I saw the replay it was a lot closer than I thought. Jerry [Dineen], our video guy, had a real good look, he thought it was offsides, so we use the challenge and fortunately for us, we won that challenge.”

Rookie forward Jimmy Vesey returned to the lineup after a one-game absence because of an upper-body injury. Vesey had been hobbled at some point during the Rangers’ 4-2 loss to the Islanders in Brooklyn on Tuesday, calling the injury “a weird thing.” He added it wasn’t from the slash he took early in the second period.

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“It was unrelated,” Vesey said Friday morning after skating with the Rangers’ extras, “but I was kind of laboring at some points in that game.”

The only description of the injury the Harvard man gave was that it was “kind of a minor upper-body thing. But I’m feeling a lot better now.”

Vigneault did limit Vesey’s exposure, playing him on the fourth line with Brandon Pirri and Nicklas Jensen. Vesey then took a high-sticking penalty in the second period that was killed off by his teammates.

Winger J.T. Miller took a hard stick to the face from Patrick Kane midway through the second period, and went to the locker room, presumably following league-mandated concussion protocol. He returned soon thereafter, and hardly wanted to answer any questions about it after the game.

“I’m fine,” Miller said quickly. “I’m fine.”

Miller also blocked a hard shot to the midsection midway through the first. He is already playing with painful stitches in his knee as the result of blocking a shot from teammate Mats Zuccarello.

With Vesey coming back, Josh Jooris was the healthy scratch up front. Jooris had struggled recently, but had played in two of the past three games and seven of the past 10.

Vigneault went with the same six defensemen for the fourth straight game, meaning Adam Clendening was a healthy scratch. He has played just twice since Oct. 22.